Jake LaMotta confirms Raging Bull 2

Jake LaMotta today insisted his life story has sill got legs and will again be immortalised on the silver screen – even at 90-years-old.

Speaking at a sportsman's dinner at the Mount Hotel in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, the former undisputed world champion from 1949 to 1951 confirmed a second film is being made about his life.

When he revealed these plans, it came 32 years since 'Raging Bull' – starring Robert De Niro as LaMotta and directed by Martin Scorsese – dominated at the 1980 Academy Awards.

And there will be a sequel - with William Forsythe attached to star as LaMotta pre and post pro career to fill in the blanks – hot on the heels of a real-life documentary called 'Moving Ahead.'

LaMotta said: "Raging Bull 2 is coming out and it's going to talk about my early age in boxing but there's going to be a documentary coming out right before that, it's in the works.

"Two more beautiful things are going to happen in my life and I don't know if I deserve it, or do I? I have spoken to William Forsythe and I think he will do a good job.

"I am curious to see how it's going to come out, Robert was a great actor and, by the time I got done with him, he could have fought professionally. That's how good he was, he was fantastic.

"In the beginning, when we were sparring, he was afraid to hit me and I said to him 'you can hit me all you want, because you are not going to hurt me.'

"The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and got Robert De Niro an Oscar for Best Actor, I wanted to play myself in the movie but the producer said I wasn't the type!"

DeNiro has been married another three times and aged 46 years since the timescale of the original 'Raging Bull' came to an end.

Today, he's engaged to be wed for a sixth time to fiancée Denise but, perhaps, still his most infamous act was to openly throw a fight for the Mafia against Billy Fox in 1947.

That got the New York-born Italian-American his world title-winning shot against Marcel Cerdan in 1949 and it still cuts deep – in the film version he wept uncontrollably in the dressing room after.

He said: "It was a tough and rough era and it was the Mafia era, they had a lot to say and do in that time, they interfered as much as possible.

"They made me do something I didn't want to do so I could get the chance to fight for the middleweight championship of the world.

"When it was my era, they were involved but they are not involved anymore I don't think, or very little. They cleaned it up a little bit.

"And, if I had to do it all over again, I think I would have done the same thing."